Brazil's Metal landscape is mostly known for the scene that brought to the world extreme metal titans such as Sepultura and Sarcofago. Those two, despite their legendary status, can't really be listed as the earliest purveyors of Brazil's barbaric, caveman Metal of the early 80's. That honour belongs to a very small group of bands, of which Vulcano is the most prominent. The band's first full-length studio album, Bloody Vengeance, is arguably one of the earliest documents of a Death/Black Metal scene that would eventually explode in Brazil, and later worldwide.
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